Tim Reardon has managed to craft a novel that will remind you of the best of Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) and Fredrick Backman (Beartown and a Man Called Ove) while once again asserting his unique voice in this story of San Francisco teens in the 1980s in search of adventure, love, redemption and a baseball card worth thousands of dollars. Reardon manages to fuse humor with tension in this rollicking novel that will keep you wanting more as you read about the shifting alliances of young people in search of a duffel bag that holds more than they know. -Paul Totah,